active learning

The author describes his experiences and processes designing curriculum for the elementary classroom, based on his thirteen years at a Waldorf school in Massachusetts where the same teacher follows a group of children from kindergarten through eighth grade.

Offers teachers a comprehensive overview of cross-curricular projects that emphasize collaboration and help students create inquiry circles that will expand their research skills and broaden their knowledge of various subjects.

Contains sixteen thematic inquiry units for students in preschool through sixth grade, each with a sample dialogic reading, examples, activities, and assessments; grouped in the categories of personal well-being, products people make and use, the community, and outdoor recreation.

A teachers guide to working with teenagers who have lost motivation to learn.

Provides a guide for teachers to shift the dynamic of the classroom from teaching to learning, based on observations from 17,000 classroom visits.

Provides guidance for teachers to energize and engage their students to become active participants in their own learning.

Flipped classroom pioneers Jonathan Bergmann and Aaron Sams take their revolutionary educational philosophy to the next level ... Building on the energy of the thousands of educators inspired by the influential book Flip Your Classroom, this installment is all about what happens next -- when a classroom is truly student-centered and teachers are free to engage with students on an individual level.

A collection of eleven essays by leading experts who address integrating inquiry across the kindergarten through twelfth-grade curriculum, and includes field-tested curriculum materials based on the national standard, assessment data, and first-person accounts.